You doubt because you love truth.

I firmly believe people have hitherto been a great deal too much taken up about doctrine and far too little about practice. The word "doctrine," as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.