If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.