Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least dram of true grace should perish

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.