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.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.