This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

The more holy a man becomes, the more conscious he is of unholiness.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him