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So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

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As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

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What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the d...more

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Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

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He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

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Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

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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 c...more

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[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

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The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be ...more

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O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we disce...more

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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 th...more

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What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, wh...more

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[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet tim...more

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Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

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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).