Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

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

Trials teach us what we are.

Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!