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

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

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

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.

I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.