It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.