Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.
God warns before he wounds.
Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.
Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.
In all God’s providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other.
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing – it hides the word.
No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.
All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.
They that die by famine die by inches.
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
Humility is the great preserver of peace and order in all Christian churches and societies, consequently pride is the great disturber of them, and the cause of most dissensions and breaches in the church.
The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.
A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.
Earth is embittered to us, that heaven may be endeared.
Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.