Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living...that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.

He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.