There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.

Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.