“The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.”
“Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.”
“The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.”
“J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.”
“He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.”
“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
“As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.”
“Come my, heart, up and away!”
“Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!”
“He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.”
“A rejoicing heart soon makes a praising tongue.”
“True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.”
“Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.”
“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble”
“Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.”
“We are all at times unconscious prophets.”
“Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.”
“Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.”
“Of two evils, choose neither.”
“Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.”
“Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.”
“If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.”
“I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.”
“I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.”
“Fiery trials make golden Christians.”
