People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.