Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

We must not be concerned only with that which troubles us, but with all that troubles God.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.