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

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

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

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.