No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

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

I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.