I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened,—as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.