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.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

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

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.