When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].