It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.

My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

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