We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.