A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.