Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.

Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

All this and heaven too.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.