Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.

There is not land beneath the sun where there is an open Bible and a preached gospel, where a tyrant long can hold his place... Let the Bible be opened to be read by all men, and no tyrant can long rule in peace... The religion of Jesus makes men think, and to make men think is always dangerous to a despot's power.

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.