Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.

To despair over one's sins indicates that sin has become or wants to be internally consistent. It wants nothing to do with the good, does not want to be so weak as to listen occasionally to other talk. No, it insists on listening only to itself, on having dealings only with itself; it closes itself up within itself, indeed, locks itself inside one more inclosure, and protects itself against every attack or pursuit by the good by despairing over sin.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

I have attacked no one as not being a Christian, I have condemned no one.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.