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.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

Least doers are the greatest boasters.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.