The unconverted do not like to hear much about the Holy Spirit.

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so does the only-wise Jehovah take his ministers oftentimes away into darkness and loneliness and trouble, that he may sharpen and prepare them for harder work in his service.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.

Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.

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.