Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

The reward of service is more service.

Is there any reason why you should not have faith in God? Has God ever broken one of His promises? I defy any infidel or unbeliever to place a finger on a single promise of God ever made and failed to fulfill.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.