For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

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.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

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

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.