Humility is the light of understanding.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

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

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

It could be a sign of pride in your life if a word of reproof or admonition is not able to be received with the same grace, whether it be given by the poorest of saints or the most educated person.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.