Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

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.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

Giving is true having.

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.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

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.

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.

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.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.