If the Lord's bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.

When I am weak then am I strong, Grace is my shield and Christ my Song.

We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it - the Holy Ghost changing the will of man. O Sirs! We might as well preach to stone walls as preach to humanity unless the Holy Ghost be with the word, to give it power to convert the soul.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your sin and shame shall be punished... can you stand against an angry Law in that Day?

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.