Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.

Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

How is it that many who profess and call themselves Christians, do so little for the Savior whose name they bear?

A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples.