The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.
Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love.
Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God’s children.
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.
The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.
He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the Christ from whom the freedom comes, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited.
To find his place and fill it is success for a man.
O, do not pray for easy lives...
There are two ways of defending a castle; one by shutting yourself up in it, and guarding every loop-hole; the other by making it an open centre of operations from which all the surrounding country may be subdued. Is not the last the truest safety?
To say ’well done’to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.
Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.
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.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us – that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.