Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.
Prayer can never be in excess.
The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.
God’s thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.
The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.
Of two evils, choose neither.
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
It was God’s word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?
Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.
Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
The Bible is not the light of the world, it is the light of the Church. But the world does not read the Bible, the world reads Christians! “You are the light of the world.”
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.