Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.