Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

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.

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

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell.

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

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

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