You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

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

The kingdom of heaven is for the heirs - and if children, then heirs; if born again, then heirs. Wherefore it is said expressly, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. By this one word, down goes all carnal privilege of being born of flesh and blood, and of the will of man. Canst thou produce the birthright?

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

The more he cast away, the more he had.