Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Every time I open my Bible I will read it as the Word of 'God, that cannot lie;' and when I get a promise or a threatening, I will either rejoice or tremble because I know that these stand fast.