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 longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

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

Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.