If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

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

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

Several devices he has to draw souls to sin, and several plots he has to keep souls from all holy and heavenly services, and several stratagems he has to keep souls in a mourning, staggering, doubting and questioning condition. He has several devices to destroy the great and honorable, the wise and learned, the blind and ignorant, the rich and the poor, the real and the nominal Christians.

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all