Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.