If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Holy service in constant fellowship with God is heaven below.
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven.
I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
It is a very solemn delusion when ministers think they are prospering, and yet do not hear of conversions.
The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer’s blood.
None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.
If you think you can walk in holiness without keeping up perpetual fellowship with Christ, you have made a great mistake. If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.
This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
It is said that if Noah’s ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men’s business is nobody’s business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.