Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.