Hope is never ill when faith is well.

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.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

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.

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

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.