I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

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.