Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

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

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

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.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.