He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.