It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.