Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
If you can’t see His way past the tears, trust His heart.
Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
God helps those who cannot help themselves.
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.
The Lord’s mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.
Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
We cannot rely on ourselves, for we have learned by bitter experience the folly of self-confidence. We are compelled to look to the Lord alone. Blessed is the wind that drives the ship into the harbor. Blessed is the distress that forces us to rest in our God.
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.