I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking only the affection of those who are great, depend upon it he is ambitious and self-seeking; but when you observe that a man seeks the affection of those who can do nothing for him, but for whom he must do everything, you know that he is not seeking himself, but that pure benevolence sways his heart.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!