Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God's terms.

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

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?

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

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