True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!