Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.

If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.

Now' is the watchword of the wise.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything