When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.