God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.