If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

Do you resolve to do the right and to love the true, depend upon it you will get no assistance from this world. Of its maxims, nine out of ten are false, and the other one selfish; and even that which is selfish has a lie at the bottom of it.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.