Grant that the voice of our own desires may not be speaking so insistently that we become deaf to your word.

It is one of the strange facts of church life that, in official church gatherings such as sessions and presbyteries and even General Assemblies, a great many hours might be given to the discussion of mundane problems of administration for every one hour given to the discussion of the eternal truths of God.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

I feel that it is good to commit my Soul, my Body, and my all into the Hands of God, Then the World appears little, the Promises great; and God an allsufficient Portion.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

Christianity is supposed to be for old women and children, they would think. So what's this man with two earned doctorates from European universities doing here defending the truth of the Christian faith with arguments we can't answer?

This is a noble magnificence of thought, a true religious greatness of mind, to be thus affected with God's general providence, admiring and magnifying His wisdom in all things; never murmuring at the course of the world, or the state of things, but looking upon all around, at heaven and earth, as a pleased spectator, and adoring that invisible hand, which gives laws to all motions, and overrules all events to ends suitable to the highest wisdom and goodness.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.