Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

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

Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.