Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

No salvation without regeneration - no spiritual life without a new birth - no heaven without a new heart.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell.

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.