Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.