We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.