Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

We ought to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord Jesus Himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance to which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.