Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.

No doubt men may easily think too little of God the Father, and God the Spirit, but no man ever thought too much of Christ.

There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.