You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.