God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.