Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. 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 slothfulness in prayer.

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