Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men’s of a different mode.
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.
Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.
I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell...
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?
Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.