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

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

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.

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?