The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.