A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.

Unbelief was the first sin, and pride was the first-born of it.

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.