Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion. - John Charles Ryle

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

The more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writing. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the Catholic or broader systems, as they are called, which, to my mind, stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time, and a great mist over the things of eternity.