Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

No matter how dear you are to God, if pride is harboured in your spirit, He will whip it out of you. They that go up in their own estimation must come down again by His discipline

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.