"This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection."

“O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!”

“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.”

“I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour.”

“Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.”

“It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.”