Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

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

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

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.