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.

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

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

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!

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

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.