Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
Before Christ comes, it is useless to expect to see the perfect church.
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
Let us read the Bible reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in it.
I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.
Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe – only believe; in sanctification the word must be ‘watch, pray, and fight.’
If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.
Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna – daily drawing new strength from Christ?
A man’s state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.
Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.
The true Christian delights to hear something about their Master. They like those sermons best which are full of Christ.
Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.