Nae man can tether time nor tide.

Humility is the light of understanding.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

Run when I can, walk when I cannot run, and creep when I cannot walk.

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

Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.