One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.
My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.
Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.
Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.
Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.
I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.
When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.
A sour religion is the devil’s religion.
Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth.
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we’ll shake England for God.
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.
I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.
We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.
Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.