This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what want, the answer to every longing--the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.

This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.