Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Morality is a neat cover for foul venom, but it does not alter the fact that the heart is vile, and the man himself is under damnation. Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence (rather than Jesus Christ).

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.