When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

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

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.