If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

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

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.

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

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