“What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.

It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one’s soul. Great knowledge is not enough.

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

Humility is the light of understanding.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.

The best writing is rewriting.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.