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

You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

There are many locks in my house and all with different keys, but I have one master-key which opens them all. The Lord has many treasures and secrets all shut up from carnal minds with locks which they cannot open. But he who walks in fellowship with Jesus possesses the master-key which will open to him all the blessings of the covenant and even the very heart of God.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.