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.

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

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.

What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?