I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?