It matters not what growth has been made in grace, how well experienced we may be in the spiritual life, or how eminent the position we have occupied in the Lord's service—when He withdraws His sustaining hand the madness which is in our hearts by nature at once asserts itself, gains the upper hand, and leads us into a course of folly.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Grace happens every day.

You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin of pride.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit: alas for us, if we get a few pinches that empty us of that windy self-subsistence.

I began to see as all this weighing and sifting what this text means and that text means, and whether folks are saved all by God's grace, or whether there goes an ounce o' their own will to't, was no part o' real religion at all. You may talk o' these things for hours on end, and you'll only be all the more coxy and conceited for't.

the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under

My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.

The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.