If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.

He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.

That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.