Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

It is not humility to underrate yourself. Humility is to think of yourself as God thinks of you. It is to feel that if we have talents God has given them to us. And let it be seen that, like freight in a vessel, they tend to sink us low. The more we have, the lower we ought to lie.

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.