Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.