Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

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

God's highest gifts--talent, beauty, feeling, imagination, power--they carry with them the possibility of the highest heaven and the lowest hell. Be sure that it is by that which is highest in you that you may be lost.