Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

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.

There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.