Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.