If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
The man who will present Christ to others must be occupied with Christ for Himself.
Nothing can touch the Word of God. Not all the powers of earth and hell, men and devils combined, can ever move the Word of God. There it stands, in its own moral glory, spite of all the assaults of the enemy, from age to age. 'For ever, 0 Lord, Thy Word is settled in heaven. '
Love to Christ is proved by doing the things which He commands, and not merely saying, Lord, Lord.
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood. "
What we have in Christ Jesus-Redemption through His blood is the beginning and foundation of everything.
It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.
Plans are useless, but planning is essential.