In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

We know so little about the future that to worry about it would be the height of foolishness.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.