The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.
Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.