The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.