The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

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

The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.