The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

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.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.