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

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

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

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

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.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.