All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.