Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

The purpose of God is the sovereign cause of all that good that is in man, and of all that external, internal and eternal good that comes to man. Not works past, for men are chosen from everlasting; not works present, for Jacob was loved and chosen before he was born; nor works foreseen, for men were all corrupt in Adam. All a believer's present happiness, and all his future happiness springs from the eternal purpose of God.

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.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.