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

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

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

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

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.