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.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.