Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

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

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Hell itself is truth known too late

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

Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.