Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Prayer can never be in excess.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

A vile imagination, once indulged, gets the key of our minds, and can get in again very easily, whether we will or no, and can so return as to bring seven other spirits with it more wicked than itself; and what may follow no one knows.