Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience.

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.