The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.

The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.