Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.