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

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

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