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

The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.

There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own consent.

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

[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are prone to make and take to our souls. He pressed us to take special heed that we took not up any truth upon trust - as from this or that, or any other man or men - but to cry mightily to God that He would convince us of the reality thereof, and set us down therein by his own Spirit in the holy word.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.