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.

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

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

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

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.