Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Providence is wonderfully intricate. Ah! You want always to see through Providence, do you not? You never will, I assure you. You have not eyes good enough. You want to see what good that affliction was to you; you must believe it. You want to see how it can bring good to the soul; you may be enabled in a little time; but you cannot see it now; you must believe it. Honor God by trusting Him.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul