Prayer is a shield to the soul

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.

Now may this little Book a blessing be To those that love this little Book, and me: And may its Buyer have no cause to say, His money is but lost, or thrown away.

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.

If you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the Man Christ without, and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God.