All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

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?

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.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.