Incredulity is not wisdom.

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.