A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.