Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree.

We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.