"Heart language is logic set on fire."

"Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!"

"Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter."

"We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple."

"I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary."

"Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation."

"Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?"

"I had rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds."

"We are not worthy to unloose the latchets of Jesus' shoes, because, if we do, we begin to say to ourselves, "What great folks are we; we have been allowed to loose the latchets of the Lord's sandals." If we do not tell somebody else about it with many an exultation, we at least tell ourselves about it, and feel that we are something after all, and ought to be held in no small repute."

"You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself."

"All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction."

"Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy."

"Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures."

"God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return."

"Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now."

"If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell."

"Remember how it is written of Job, "The Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. While he prayed for himself, he remained a captive; but when he prayed for those unfriendly friends of his, then the Lord smiled upon him, and loosed his captivity."

"Dream not that worldlings will admire you, or that the more holy and the more Christ-like you are, the more peaceably people will act towards you. They prized not the polished gem, how should they value the jewel in the rough?"

"Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world."

"Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you."

"Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing."

"God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers."

"Spurgeon challenges us to go to the river of our experience, to pull up bulrushes, and to place them in the Ark of our memory, experiencing again the wonder that allowed our infant faith to flourish."

"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."

"If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!"

"It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him."

"You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner."

"The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ."

"The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come."

"We entertain God's Truth not as a guest but as master of the house."

"We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer."

"God trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with heavy knapsacks of sorrow on their backs."

"It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength."

"There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it."

"Simulated ardor is a shameful form of lying."

"If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up."

"Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels."

"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

"Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again."

"When you enter heaven you shall find Him there bearing the dew of His youth; and through eternity the Lord Jesus shall still remain the perennial spring of joy, and life, and glory to His people."

"Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told."

"When your will is God's will, you will have your will."

"Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith."

"Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making."

"We often forget that the Author of our faith must be the Preserver of it also. The lamp which was burning in the temple was never allowed to go out, but it had to be daily replenished with fresh oil; in like manner, our faith can only live by being sustained with the oil of grace."

"If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast."

"A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed."

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers."

"If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory."