Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.
When we are calling to God to turn the eye of His favor towards us He is calling to us to turn the eye of our obedience towards Him.
Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.
ThanksGiving is good but ThanksLiving is better.
The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.
It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
Christ’s followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.
Seducers are more dangerous enemies to the church than persecutors.
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ’s wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
The first lesson in Christ’s school is self-denial.
God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.
Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.
Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.