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

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.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

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

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

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

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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

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.

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

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.

Giving is true having.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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

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

It’s not the having, it’s the getting.

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

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.

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

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.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

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.

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

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.

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.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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.

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

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

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

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

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.