Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.