So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.