Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.

The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but that one soul to bless. How my heart admires the concentration of all the Godhead and humanity of Christ in his search after each sheep of his flock.

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!