Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.