My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.

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

It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We must actually read it, and pray over it ourselves. It will do us no good, if it only lies still in our houses. We must be actually familiar with its contents, and have its texts stored in our memories and minds. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

The faith that has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils.

If you do not love Christ, let me tell you plainly what is the reason. You have no sense of debt to him.

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

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.