Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.