Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

…just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his back, and began to tumble down the hill, and so it continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre. There it fell in, and I saw it no more!

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

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