Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.

The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.