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.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

He who is not angry at transgression becomes a partaker in it.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.