There is great danger, yea many times most danger, in the smallest sins... Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do. Little sins often slide into the soul, and breed, and work secretly and undiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat of the soul.

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction.

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.