Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.