Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.