To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.

Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.