I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

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

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.