Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.
Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.
Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.
God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.
We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.
Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms. King of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph. Heir of all things, and yet the carpenter’s despised son.
I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.
All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.
Prayer is the thermometer of grace.
He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip.