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

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

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.

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 ?

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.