I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

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?

Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

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

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.