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.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.