We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

Lastly, we must be holy, because without holiness on earth - we will never be prepared to enjoy Heaven. ...I do not know what others may think - but to me it does seem clear that Heaven would be a miserable place to an unholy man. It cannot be otherwise. People may say in a vague way, that they "hope to go to Heaven, but they do not consider what they say. There must be a certain "fitness for the inheritance of the saints in light.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

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

To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.