If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.