Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.