If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.