Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.'

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.