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

Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."

…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!

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.

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

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.