The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.