For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object of tender interest to the surgeon, as when he is bleeding beneath his knife. So you may be sure if you are suffering from the hand of a reconciled God, that His eye is all the more bent on you.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man