We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.