That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Fiery trials make golden Christians.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.