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

Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

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

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

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