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

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

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.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.