Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

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

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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

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.