Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

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

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.