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.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.