The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satan’s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man’s heart till man’s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.