True Christian is not an angel; he is not a halfangelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity: he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.