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

The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

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.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.