People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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