To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

My witness is, that those who are honoured of their Lord in public, have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil.

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.