Birth: 1577 Death: 1635
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace..
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget ….
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride..
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy..
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not lov….
Times are bad, God is good..
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and w….
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world..
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment….
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose..
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession..
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell..
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us..
Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by)..
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without..
It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good..
When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can..
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy..
This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare w….
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation..