To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'