“Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.”

According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord…He waits quietly for the King.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

Let us resolve by God’s grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

Let it never surprise true Christians if they are slandered and misrepresented in this world. They must not expect to fare better than their Lord.

Whatever others around you think, don’t you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.

My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.

Every ending is a beginning, and thus beginning shall bring hope.

Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer.

When we see others beginning to live their authentic selves, it drives us crazy if we have not lived out our own.