“Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.”

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.

Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.