He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.