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.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.

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.