There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.
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?
Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.