I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

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.