Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.

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.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

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

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.