Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

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.

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

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.