The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.