The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.

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.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.