We have no reason to be discouraged and cast down if the religion we profess is not popular and few agree with us. We must remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ in this passage: ‘The gate is narrow’. Repentance, and faith in Christ, and holiness of life, have never been fashionable. The true flock of Christ has always been small. It must not move us to find that we are reckoned singular, and peculiar, and bigoted, and narrow minded. This is the ‘narrow way’. Surely it is better to enter into eternal life with a few, than to go to ‘destruction’ with a great company

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

Before Christ comes it is useless to expect to see a perfect Church.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.

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