Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

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

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.