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 ?

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.