When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Oh, Brethren, it is sickening work to think of your cushioned seats, your chants, your anthems, your choirs, your organs, your gowns, and your bands, and I know not what besides, all made to be instruments of religious luxury, if not of pious dissipation, while ye need far more to be stirred up and incited to holy ardor for the propagation of the truth as it is in Jesus.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel