There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.