Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

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

Nae man can tether time nor tide.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.