I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.