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.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.

Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.