“The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.”

The world’s idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

The Lord Jesus is “a friend who never changes.” There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty(al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart.

I’m not sure if you know this but your peace is not up for debate.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

In my personal life I’m not very tough at all, but in my professional life, having to deal with being a woman in a man’s world, I’m really tough. I never back down from a fight or an argument. I’m willing to stand there toe to toe with anyone.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The best words for resolving a disagreement are, “I could be wrong; I often am.” It’s true.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.