Let gratitude be awakened; let humility be deepened; let love be quickened.
To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.
If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
Every threatening of God, as well as every promise shall be fulfilled.
We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.
The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart’s desire is to become perfect.
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.
The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.
Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.
Growth can be painful, change can be painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it only empties today of its strengths.
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.
Our extremities are God’s opportunities.
If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
We are all damaged goods in recovery.
The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.
You never have to drag mercy out of Christ, as money from a miser.
It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?