First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

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

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

The Kingdom of grace is nothing but.... the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the Kingdom ofgrace is glory in the daybreak, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the Kingdom of grace is glory militant, and the Kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.... the Kingdom ofgrace leads to the Kingdom of glory.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.