All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.