To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

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

The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.

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

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

O my soul, I am now addressing myself to the greatest work that ever a creature was employed about - I am going into the solemn presence of God about business of everlasting importance!