Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.