Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.