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

God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

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.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.