God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

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