God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.