We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.
My talent is to speak my mind. God won’t object if you bury that talent.
Suffer all, and conquer all.
Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree...
Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.