This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.

The thing framed says that nothing framed it; the tongue never made itself to speak, and yet talks against him that did; saying that which is made, is, and that which made it, is not. But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.