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.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.