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

It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.

A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.