People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

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

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

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

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

Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.