Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.