Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

The true way for a Christian to live is to live entirely upon Christ... Christians have experiences and they have feelings, but, if they are wise, they never feed upon these things, but upon Christ, Himself.