Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.