He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

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.