We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie; if ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.

Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

[Providences] often puzzle and entangle our thoughts, but bring them to the Word, and your duty will be quickly manifested. "Until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end" (Ps. 73:17). And not only their end, but his own duty, to be quiet in an afflicted condition and not envy their prosperity.