What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

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

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.