There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

How silently, how silently The wonderous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of his heaven. No ear may hear his coming, But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive him still, The dear Christ enters in.

Preaching is truth through personality.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it is not in certain words which Jesus spoke, vast as is their preciousness; it is in the Word, which Jesus is, that the great manifestation of God is made.