Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.

Teach us by your lives.

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another.

It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.

The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.