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

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.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

I was never out of my Bible.

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.