Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.