that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.

It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

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.

If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.