Go forth today, by the help of God's Spirit, vowing and declaring that in life - come poverty, come wealth, in death - come pain or come what may, you are and ever must be the Lord's. For this is written on your heart, 'We love Him because He first loved us.'

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.

That which,like a sea, threatens to drown you- shall be a highway for your escape