Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.

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. . . .

We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest in any work or duty of our own, but we may find it in Christ, whom faith apprehends for justification and salvation.

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.