Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

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

There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves