It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The purpose of our holy and righteous God was to save his church, but their sin could not go unpunished. It was, therefore, necessary that the punishment for that sin be transferred from those who deserved it but could not bear it, to one who did not deserve it but was able to bear it.