Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way.

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.