Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with comfort. Strange is it that where misery was concentrated mercy reigned; where sorrow reached her climax weary souls find rest.

Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.