The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.
Faith is reason at rest in God.
We live charmed lives if we are living in the center of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan can hurl against us are not only powerless to harm us, but are turned into blessing on the way.
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.
When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we “pretend” that we are seeking.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
It is not well to make great changes in old age.
May every one of us believe Him better, and have greater thoughts of Him, and never let us be guilty henceforth of confining, as it were, within iron bonds the limitless One of Israel.
He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
But no thoughtful man’s life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.
A sheep in the midst of wolves is safe compared with the Christian in the midst of ungodly men.
There is no exception to this rule: “All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant.” They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule.