We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last.
The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
Let me ask you, how many atheists are now in this house? Perhaps not a single one of you would accept the title, and yet, if you live from Monday morning to Saturday night in the same way as you would live if there were no God, you are practical atheists.
Love for God is obedience; love for God is holiness. To love God and to love man is to be conformed to the image of Christ, and this is salvation.
A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man’s best wealth.
Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.
Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
Giving is true loving.
The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.
The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us.
There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart.
A child’s cry touches a father’s heart.