If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.

We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.