“Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.”

Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

No one ever reached heaven without repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.

The true Christian delights to read the Scriptures, because they tell him about his beloved Savior.

Look not to yourselves! You are by nature wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Look simply unto Jesus.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

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.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged–the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I have been seized by the power of a great affection.

What you don’t owe would never hurt you.

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.