Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!

Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.