The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.