Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

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

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

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

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

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.