Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.