Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.

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

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

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

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

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.