I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.

Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

Let me be as the bullock which stands between the plough and the altar, to work or to be sacrificed; and let my motto be, "Ready for either".

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.