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.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.