Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!