You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? Can the loving wife in Heaven be happy with her unbelieving husband in Hell? I tell.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God