Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.