The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

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.

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.