Occupation: Poet Birth: November 12, 1615 Death: December 8, 1691
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?.
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear….
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of..
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom c….
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!.
Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon..
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile..
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow..
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin..
For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruit….
I did nothing that I might not have done better..
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on ea….
Hell is paved with infants skulls..
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are f….
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see..
Dangers breed fears, and fears more dangers bring..
Screw the truth into men's minds..
While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued..
In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not….
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before..
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain..