Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.