I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

When I am giving the relation of a thing, remember to abstain from altering either in the matter or manner of speaking, so much, as that, if every one, afterwards, should alter as much, it would at last come to be properly false.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action