The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

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

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.