When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.
Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.
May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
God’s Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.
We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God’s all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.
Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God’s mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.
Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself and a continued readiness for every event.
We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us.
The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.