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

If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.

People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.

We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.

The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.