“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
“What God says is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, and sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
“Dark clouds bring living waters, where bright skies bring none.”
“One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
“I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eyelids rather than disobey God.”
“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think . . . It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving . . . Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.”
“I seek a place that can never be destroyed, one that is pure, and that fadeth not away, and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there, to be given, at the time appointed, to them that seek it with all their heart. Read it so, if you will, in my book.”
“It is always hard to see the purpose in wilderness wanderings until after they are over."
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can truly grieve you except sin; and nothing can defeat you except sin. So, therefore, be on your guard.”
“The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction”
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
“It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls.”
“Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.”
