A child of God is like a person in a beautiful palace; if there is light in it he sees the splendid objects around him, and enjoys them; but if the light is removed, he is nevertheless in the palace still, and surrounded with the same splendid objects as before, though he cannot see them. So no matter how the believer's feelings and sensible comforts may have their ebbs and flows, his state before God is invariable the same.

UNBELIEVER - Whilst thou art unconverted, thy body is but the living coffin of a dead soul.

That Christian is in a poor state who grows colder as he grows older.

Holiness is not the way to Christ, but Christ is the way to holiness.

The Germans have a proverb - When the bricks are doubled, then comes Moses; that is, man's extremity is God's opportunity.

A man may be out of Christ to-day, and in Him to-morrow; but he cannot be in Him to-day, and out of Him to-morrow.

The difference between a regenerate and an unregenerate man, in point of sanctification, is this: the regenerate man does not live in sin, though sin lives in him; whereas sin both lives in the other and he lives in sin.

A good man says, I never trusted God but that I found Him faithful, nor my own heart but I found it false.

As a skilful physician, from a variety of herbs and plants (some of which are in their own nature poisonous) by a judicious mixture of them together, compounds medicines for the use of man - so God causes all things, even those which are seemingly hurtful, to conspire for the good of His elect.

Learning, when sanctified, is a blessing; but too many learned men are like Pilate: they fix, as he did, their Hebrew, Greek, and Latin over Christ's head, instead of putting it under His feet.

Only that Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world can take away that world of sin which is in the heart of every one of His people.

All is not wise that wise men say, nor all good that good men do; the best of men are but men at the best.

Let none be discouraged because of the weakness of their faith; for there are infants, as well as fathers, in Christ's family; lambs, as well as sheep, in His fold; and shrubs, as well as cedars, in God's Lebanon.

Spiritual pride and spiritual poverty go together.

A Christian lives by faith, just as Esau lived by the sword. He did not live upon his sword - that would have been hard living indeed; but he lived on what his sword brought him. So the believer does not live upon his faith, but by it; that is, he lives upon what faith brings home to him, even the love, the righteousness, the atonement, the intercession of Christ.

If we trust God for our heavenly inheritance, we may well trust Him for our daily maintenance.

The doctrine of grace may be turned into licentiousness, but the principle of grace cannot.

The hypocrite's rising is the means of his fall, but the believer's fall is the means of his rising.

Either exercise thy graces, or Satan will exercise thy corruptions: as one bucket descends, the other rises.