The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.