For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
When the heart is full of joy, it always allows its joy to escape. It is like the fountain in the marketplace; whenever it is full it runs away in streams, and so soon as it ceases to overflow, you may be quite sure that it has ceased to be full. The only full heart is the overflowing heart.
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died...
You need not to know much about Heaven-it is where Christ is, and that is Heaven enough for us.
The world’s one and only remedy is the cross.
When you think of what you are, and despair; think also of what He is, and take heart.
Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes.
A thousand lives are not equal to the eternal life which abides in Jehovah’s smile.
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.
Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
The boundless stores of Providence are engaged for the support of the believer.
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord’s Prayer.
He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
Surely if men’s hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.
A good character is the best tombstone.