Since we are dead in sin, a spiritual light and flame in the heart suitable to the nature of the object of our worship, cannot be raised in us without the operation of supernatural grace... such a worship God must have, whereby he is acknowledged to be the true sanctifier and quickener of the soul.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

How worthy it is to remember former benefits when we come to beg for new.

We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.