To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ's parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.