A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another, and so at the last There is a real service of Christ in the distribution of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover. How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell

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