The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.