The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.