When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

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.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.