We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments.... Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.

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.

He who seeks the Father more than anything He can give, is likely to have what he asks, for he is not likely to ask amiss.

If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, andhe that does not live to God, is dead.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.

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.