Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

Brethren, who are we that God should have been so good to us?

The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.

Sleepy Christian, let me shout in thine ears: thou are sleeping while souls are being lost, sleeping while men are being damned, sleeping while hell is being peopled, sleeping while Christ is being dishonored, sleeping while the devil is grinning at thy sleepy face, sleeping while demons are dancing round thy slumbering carcass, and telling it in hell that a Christian is asleep. You will never catch the devil asleep; let not the devil catch you asleep. Watch, and be sober, that ye may be always up to do your duty.