For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!