I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

Christ sayeth not, Abstain from the flesh, from marrying, from housekeeping, etc., as the Papists teach, for that were even to invite the devil and all his fellows to a feast.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.