We must mark God’s providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes.
Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.
Beloved Friends, we may well continue to praise God, for our God continues to give us causes for praise!
When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!
Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.
Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
The doctrines some now preach could not build a mouse-trap.
Don’t just throw the seed at the people! Grind it into flour, bake it into bread, and slice it for them. And it wouldn’t hurt to put a little honey on it.
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.
Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.
Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.
Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.
You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.
When our troubles are many we are often by grace made courageous in serving our God; we feel that we have nothing to live for in this world, and we are driven, by hope of the world to come, to exhibit zeal, self-denial, and industry.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful.