The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by his rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these fail, all other means are likely to prove ineffectual. If these are duly maintained, all the means of grace will be likely to prosper and be successful.

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due