Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.