I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

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

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.