That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.

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.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

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.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.