Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.
I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
On his world record triple jump – It’s only jumping into a sandpit.
The material universe exists only in the mind.
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
Sunshine go away today, I don’t feel much like dancing.
He can’t even run his own life, I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine.
Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness.
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing.
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.