"He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475)."
"The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374)."
"As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99)."
"[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317)."
"The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519)."
"When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]"
"Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279)."
"Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648)."
"what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!"
"Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483)."
"The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15)."
"As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483)."
"He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352)."
"We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)?"
"Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358)."
"If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585)."
"He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]"
"[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]"
"If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556)."
"Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573)."
"Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571)."
"Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383)."
"Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shal lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when they shall cry out for mercy, yea, for one drop of water, and God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when non in heaven or earth can help them but God, and hell shall rejoice over them in their calamity(244)?"
"O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648)."
"Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!"