Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.