The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.

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.