If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

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, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.