The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

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

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

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