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

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.

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

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.