Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Far be it for me to imagine that Zion contains none but Calvinistic Christians within her walls, or that there are none saved who do not hold our views