True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

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.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

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.

Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.