Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.

To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.

Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

To receive the Word in the ear is one thing, and to receive Jesus into your very soul is quite another.

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