We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.

There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.