I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

Temperance is love in training.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

Character is what you do in the dark.