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

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

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.