A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

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

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

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

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.