Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.