Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion: for you must consider that you live among diseased souls. And you must not lay a stumblingblock in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust, nor make your ornaments their snares; but you must walk among sinful persons, as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you would not foresee, when it is too late to quench it.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

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

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

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

Screw the truth into men's minds.