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

It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.

true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.

By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

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