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

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!