I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.