The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

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 ?

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.