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Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

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!

O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer ...

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]

Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace.

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.

But a tedious way to a grievous end(745);

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

An aching tooth is better out than in.
To lose a rotting member is a gain.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

Surely love is both work and wages.

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

[M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

[O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.

Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.

We will live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger ... Latimer(69) [.]

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?

Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.

If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell ...

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.