The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.