Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.

A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.