Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.

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

Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.