“It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.”

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

You can’t be good to others without God being good back to you. There are blessings connected to helping others.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

I know I’m blessed because yo’ stress is realer than anything I done been through.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.