If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.