Trials teach us what we are.

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

There is an inherent blasphemy in seeking to add to what Christ Jesus in His dying moments declared to be finished.

God gave me this great book to preach from, and if He has put anything in it you think is not fit, go and complain to Him, not to me. I am simply his servant, and if His errand that I am to tell is objectionable, I cannot help it.