Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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?

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

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