The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

90 percent of the people in the world make their decisions based on fear.

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

Take the words of Jesus and let them become the Supreme Court of the Gospel to you.

We're all confounded by a lack of time.

And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.

It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.