Giving is true having. |
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. |
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. |
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. |
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. |
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. |
Of two evils, choose neither. |
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. |
It is not well to make great changes in old age. |
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. |
The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. |
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. |
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. |
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven. |
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. |
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. |