What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one, but the (the Christian) cured of the disease of fearing.

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him.