Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.