There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week

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.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.

Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.