Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

I did nothing that I might not have done better.

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

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.

When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.

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