...the cross saves completely, or not at all. Our faith does not divide the work of salvation between itself and the cross. It is the acknowledgment that the cross alone saves, and that it saves alone. Faith adds nothing to the cross, nor to its healing virtue.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.

Out of His fulness we receive, and grace for grace, — like wave upon wave.

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.