The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God...Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin?-take the measure of it from the mediation of Christ, especially his cross.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.

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