No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound!

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

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.

Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without prayer; friendships formed without prayer; the daily act of prayer itself hurried over, or gone through without heart: these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual palsy, or reaches the point where God allows them to have a tremendous fall.