The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time.

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.