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

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

I would rather wear out than rust out.

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.