A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.