Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up, nay, you have to cut every step with an ice axe; only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress... If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.