A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.