You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

Trust Christ, but do not trust yourself

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.