"There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life."

"Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister."

"I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him."

"Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties."

"Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy."

"The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross."

"A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics."

"The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer."

"There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi."

"That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth He casteth away."

"The things that are essential to salvation are so exceedingly simple that no child need sit down in despair of understanding the things which make for his peace. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people. True it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes."

"Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened."

"Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self."

"The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace."

"Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else."

"One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day."

"The church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our seasons of intense delight."

"When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle."

"I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly."

"Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers."

"The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough."

"As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved."

"The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart."

"Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God."

"Even your little sorrows you may roll upon God, for He counteth the hairs of your head."

"All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life."

"Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality."

"The very precariousness of weather excites a large amount of earnest prayer."

"If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company."

"You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled."

"Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations."

"It is not great counts God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus."

"If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought."

"This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST."

"The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it."

"It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity."

"As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer."

"Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants."

"It is ill to offer God one duty stained with the blood of another."

"Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought."

"If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord's people have always been a waiting people."

"We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom..."

"In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it."

"Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture."

"God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy-the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it."

"The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven."

"Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach."

"Give yourself to reading.'... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works,especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible."

"It is a pity that we cannot persuade all ministers to be men, for it is hard to see how other was they can be truly men of God."

"We reign over the united kingdom of time and eternity."