The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.