Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

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

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

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

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

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