Our joy ends where love of the world begins.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

I can admire the solemn and stately language of worship that recognizes the greatness of God, but it will not warm my heart or express my soul until it has also blended therewith the joyful nearness of that perfect love that casts out fear and ventures to speak with our Father in heaven as a child speaks with its father on earth. My brother, no veil remains.

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.