Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
Cotton MatherThat there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.
Cotton MatherYou are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
Cotton MatherChrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.
Cotton Mather