Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.

Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?