Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves Christ for salvation, but when it is brought to him, and finds what sweetness there is in him, then the soul loves him for himself, and esteems his person, as well as rejoices in his benefits.