I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

If you release me today, I'll preach tomorrow.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

Be of good cheer, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.