Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

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.

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

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.