If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

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

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

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

Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.