Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.