What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but as strangers to us, in comparison of the unspeakable dearness that was between the Father and Christ. Now, that he should ever be content to part with a Son, and such an only One, is such a manifestation of love, as will be admired to all eternity.

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

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

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.