God does not look at riches, titles, education, or beauty. There is only one thing that God does look at, and that is the soul.

The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume, you have hitherto read your Bible to very little profit. Your religion is a heaven without a sun, an arch without a keystone, a compass without a needle, a clock without a spring or weights, a lamp without oil. It will not comfort you; it will not deliver your soul from hell.

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.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?