There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

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

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 a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.

Fiery trials make golden Christians.

Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.