“No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.”

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.

We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

With your vote, we are going to lift our nation to extraordinary new heights.

All I knew is that I never wanted to be average.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.

I don’t have any extraordinary gifts. I’m just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.