Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.