However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our infirmities become the black velvet on which the diamond of God's love glitters all the more brightly. Thank God I can suffer ! Thank God I can be made the object of shame and contempt, for in this way God shall be glorified.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.