It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep. We must have stood side by side with King David; we must have gone down into the pit to slay the lion or have lifted up the spear against the eight hundred, if we would know the saving strength of God's right hand. Conflicts bring experience, and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.