A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.

It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.

Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.

He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.