We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.
If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.
The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.
When God’s mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God’s Word.
The work of God’s Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.
All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul.
Our joy ends where love of the world begins.
Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.
When we cannot see the sunshine of God’s face, it is blessed to cower down beneath the shadow of his wings.
A man’s contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
I can find ten more who will die for the Bible for every one who will actually read it.