Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts...It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.