A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.