Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.