Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

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

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

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.

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