Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.

I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.