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

It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear.