What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from bein….

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride..

In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the ….

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace..

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is….

Times are bad, God is good..

The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory..

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 ….

The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves ….

God's truth always agrees with itself..

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth..

No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections a….

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual….

We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and s….

Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin; and proportionally….

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of pr….

Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last..

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not lov….

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses..

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..

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart..