Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.