No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

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