My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.

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

Heart language is logic set on fire.

Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord.

One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along that you never knew you had.

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

"Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

But woman brings disorder into society through passion.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.