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

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.