The Nurse Of Infidelity Is Sensuality.

God's Way Of Answering The Christian's Prayer For More Patience, Experience, Hope And Love Often Is To Put Him Into The Furnace Of Affliction.

When A Founder Has Cast A Bell He Does Not Presently Fix It In The Steeple, But Tries It With His Hammer, And Beats It On Every Side To See If There Be Any Flaw In It. So Christ Doth Not Presently After He Hath Converted A Man, Convey Him To Heaven; But Suffers Him First To Be Beaten Upon By Many Temptations And Then Exalts Him To His Crown.

The First Step Towards Knowledge Is To Know That We Are Ignorant.

Unbelief Starves The Soul; Faith Finds Food In Famine.

An Accession Of Wealth Is A Dangerous Predicament For A Man. At First He Is Stunned If The Accession Be Sudden, And Is Very Humble And Very Grateful. Then He Begins To Speak A Little Louder, People Think Him More Sensible, And Soon He Thinks Himself So.