Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

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.