My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what he has done, and in what he is doing for me.

Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!