My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.