To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

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 a slothfulness in prayer.

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

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

If you meet with a system of theology which magnifies man, flee from it as far as you can.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer