The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider... abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.