It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.