Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

Be not proud of race, face, place, or grace.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Feel for others - in your pocket

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair