“This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.”

“I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.”

“If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.”

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”

“Amazing grace! how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found,Was blind but now i see.”

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”