Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

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

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

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