Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.