Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.