This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

Where the plow does not go and the seed is not sown, the weeds are sure to multiply.

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.