The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

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

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.

On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.