The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart.

Be Godlike then; and in all ways and by all means so live that all may say of you, 'He has been with Jesus'.

It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.