Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.