Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

The Christian who keeps his heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.