Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.