The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

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

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

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.