Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed....?

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

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.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

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