Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.