As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

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

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.