It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

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.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings