The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

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.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.