Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment; for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; for no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could be tempted; but of all employments, bodily labor is the most useful, and of the greatest benefit for driving away the Devil.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.

My life is blessed; I have held my children's children.

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.