For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.