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.

I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.

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.

By affliction He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.