Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.