You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
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.
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.