The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced.

God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?