You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

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.

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

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