An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

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

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

Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that He will certainly employ all the power of His Godhead to secure and save all those that He must be accountable for. Christ's charge and care of these that are given to Him, extends even to the very day of their resurrection, that He may not so much as lose their dust, but gather it together again, and raise it up in glory to be a proof of His fidelity; for, saith He, "I shall lose nothing, but raise it up again at the last day."

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him.

Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. 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.