To every saved man, it is the greatest miracle of all that he is himself a believer. He that will not believe in Christ would murder God if he could. No man should give sleep to his eyes or slumber to his eyelids while he has a doubt about his eternal state. I am greatly afraid of men who make loud professions of superior sanctity . . . I have now become very suspicious of all who cry upon their own wares.
Some ministers believe nothing except that nothing can be believed.
Come down, sir, you will meet him at the foot. You spoil the harmony of nature's concert if even the sparrow's chirp is unheard. You may take it as a rule that the Spirit of God does not usually do for us what we can do for ourselves, and that if religious knowledge is printed in a book, and we can read it, there is no necessity for the Holy Ghost to make a fresh revelation of it to us, in order to screen our laziness. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. We do not believe according to the counting of heads . . .