Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

God warns before he wounds.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.