If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.