Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

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

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove 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.