Blushing is the colour of virtue.
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
Their own second and sober thoughts.
The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
To fish in troubled waters.
Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.
Love is the root; obedience is the fruit.
Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.
Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.
Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.
If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.
Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.
Those that abide in Christ as their heart’s desire shall have, through Christ, their heart’s desire.
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
Our creature comforts.
Hypocrites do the devil’s drudgery in Christ’s livery.