No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

I saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor my bad frame that made my righteousness worse; for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself, the same yesterday and today and forever.

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.

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

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

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.