We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

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.

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.