Fiery trials make golden Christians.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

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