Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves