...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.