Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

Fiery trials make golden Christians.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

The Christian's life should be one of thankfulness to God.