As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.

In seasons of severe trial, the Christian has nothing on earth that he can trust to, and is therefore compelled to cast himself on God alone. When no human deliverance can avail, he must simply and entirely trust himself to the providence and care of God. Happy storm that wrecks a man on such a rock as this! O blessed hurricane that drives the soul to God--and God alone!

Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.

He who is surety is never sure himself. Take advice, and never be security for more than you are quite willing to lose. Remember the word of the wise man: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; and he that hateth suretyship is sure.