“It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever the quickening instrument.”

“If we are growing holier, we are growing kinder.”

“Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a world of misery at my very door? Lord, put thine own strength in me; confirm every good resolution; forgive my past long life of uselessness and folly.”

“If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!”

“Let us be as watchful after the victory as before the battle.”

“If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.”

“It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.”