Nae man can tether time nor tide.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Humility is the light of understanding.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

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!

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.