God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.