My brethren, if you were left to yourselves, you would be overcome by every temptation with which you are beset.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary Gladly shall I come whenever bodily strength will allow to join my testimony with yours in Olney pulpit, that God is love. As yet I have not recovered from the fatigues of my American expedition. My shattered bark is scarce worth docking any more. But I would fain wear, not rust, out. Oh! my dear Mr. Newton, indeed and indeed I am ashamed that I have done and suffered so little for Him that hath done and suffered so much for ill and hell-deserving me.