Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.