Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.