Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.

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

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.