To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.