The wronged side is always the safest.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

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.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

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.