If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.

Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.