What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.