The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.