Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

The more he cast away, the more he had.