Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

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.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.