To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

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

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

Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

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

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.