Feelings come, and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God.

The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

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.