Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

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.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.