All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

The Lord help me to press after God forever