There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

The grace of God exalts a man without inflating him, and humbles a man without debasing him.

All that Christ did and suffered would have been necessary had only one human soul been the object of redemption; and nothing different and nothing more would have been required had every child of Adam been saved through his blood.