We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.