It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

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.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. They who preach this truth preach the gospel in whatever else they may be mistaken; but they who preach not the atonement, whatever else they declare, have missed the soul and substance of the divine message.

Fiery trials make golden Christians.