My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!