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

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.