We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.