Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace obliged to; as private prayer, reading the scriptures, and Christian conference. It is a base thing for men so to spend themselves and families after this world, as that they disengage their heart to God's worship.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.