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

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.