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.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
God’s favour is happiness.
Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.
We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.
God took Eve from the side of Adam, not from his foot to be his menial or slave or servant, not from his head to be his mental superior, and did take him from that which is nearest his heart, that he might love her, and that which is under his arm, that he might protect her.
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.
Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?
Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.
To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.
It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.