The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

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

We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.

Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

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.

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