Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.