These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

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

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they can say, 'He is very clever, a fine preacher, a man of genius, a born orator.' Is cleverness to make false doctrine palatable? Why, sirs, to me the ability of a man who preaches error is my sorrow rather than my admiration.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.