There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.