When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.
Let us only take heed that this office of Christ is not set before us in vain. It will profit us nothing at the last day that Jesus was a Shepherd, if during our lifetime, we never heard His voice and followed Him. If we love life, let us join His flock without delay.
The best of men are men at best.
Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone.
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.
Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.
Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.
The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.
People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.
Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.
A Bible reading laity is a nation’s surest defence against error.
We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty.
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.