We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

Herein would I live; herein would I die; hereon would I dwell in my thoughts and affections; to the withering and consumption of all the painted beauties of this world, unto the crucifying all things here below, until they become unto me a dead and deformed thing, no way meet for affectionate embraces.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.