Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.