With all the stir made about education, the ignorance of our own country's history is something lamentable and appalling and depressing. - John Charles Ryle

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

I cannot find in Scripture that anyone ever got to heaven merely by sincerity, or was accepted with God if he was only earnst in maintaining his own views.[…] Sincerity cannot put away sin.

It has often been observed that the mothers of great men, and especially of great divines, have been remarkable for strong mind and force of intellect. Mothers have been found, as a general rule, to influence children's character far more than fathers.