Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.