Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.

Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.