That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against….We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap….Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.
Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ “lifted up” and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians “enter into the holiest,” and are at length landed in glory.
Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.
It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.