It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.