The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

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?

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.

And I believe it to be a signal evidence of the Spirit's presence when the Word is really precious to a man 's soul.