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

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

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 angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.