It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.