To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?
The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.
Faith is obedience, not compliance.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?