One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.
Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.