For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.

If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into a dance, entereth into his possession.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."

Nothing appeases an enraged elephant so much as the sight of a little lamb.