Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?