If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.

It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ. Indeed, many in the Church are giving up the idea of it except on the occasion of the advent of Christ, which, as it chimes in with our own idleness, is likely to be a popular doctrine. I myself believe that King Jesus will reign, and the idols be utterly abolished. . . . The Holy Ghost would never suffer the imputation to rest upon His holy name that He was not able to convert the world.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.