Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

We cannot resist the conviction that this world is for us only the porch of another and more magnificent temple of the Creator's majesty.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.