Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then think of the next.
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God’s word or man’s, is himself unrenewed at heart.
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
Humility makes us ready to be blessed by the God of all grace.
Six feet of dirt make all men equal.
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.
When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God’s love.
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord’s authority; they are afraid of offending Him; they feel their own nothingness in the sight of the Infinite One.
The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!