Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.

Great comforts do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace but not to the degree of it the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.