You are as much serving God in looking after your own children, & training them up in God’s fear, & minding the house, & making your household a church for God, as you would be if you had been called to lead an army to battle for the Lord of hosts.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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

This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.