Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Hell is paved with infants skulls.
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary.
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace.
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man’s mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.