a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

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

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.

At the day of Doom men shall be judged according to their fruits. It will not be said then, did you believe? But, were you doers or talkers only?

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

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