“It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.”

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don’t feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.

We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Enlightenment will be now the beginning, not the end. Beginning of a non-ending process in all dimensions of richness.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

God speaks in the silence of the heart Listening is the beginning of prayer.