Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

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.