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

He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they come, or whither they tend; but, before he hath done, the sound will be heard throughout the soul.

Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.

The chains of love are stronger than the chains of fear.