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

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!

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

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.

All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have fallen drops of rain, since the creation, to this day, cannot wash away one sin. The everLasting burnings in hell, cannot purify the flaming conscience, from the least sin.

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