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

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.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

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

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.