For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

God, as I may say, is forced to break men's hearts, before he can make them willing to cry to him, or be willing that he should have any concerns with them; the rest shut their eyes, stop their ears, withdraw their hearts, or say unto God, Be gone.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.

It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.