No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.