You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

Love to Jesus is the basis of all true piety, and the intensity of this love will ever be the measure of our zeal for His glory. Let us love Him with all our hearts, and then diligent labor, and consistent living will be sure to follow.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.