Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.