It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.