I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.

A little thorn may cause much suffering. A little cloud may hide the sun. Little foxes spoil the vines; and little sins do mischief to the tender heart. These little sins burrow in the soul, and make it so full of that which is hateful to Christ, that he will hold no comfortable fellowship and communion with us. A great sin cannot destroy a Christian, but a little sin can make him miserable.

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.