An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

If Christ were only a cistern we might soon exhaust his fullness but who can drain a fountain?

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Dear brethren, this is exactly what we have to do, we have to pawn the present for the future. We must be satisfied to give up anything which Christ may require of us for the sake of that which is to come. Our inheritance is not on this side of Jordan. Our joy is yet to be revealed. I grant you that we have much thrown in, for the Lord is a good paymaster; but on the road to heaven he gives us only our spending money.

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.