The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by Jesus Christ, and the work of it is supernatural. It is done by the Lord Himself, and He has power to do it, however weak, no, however dead in sin, the sinner may be!

In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.