You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.