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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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O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my ...more

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[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

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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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The sum is this, —As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces in meditation; and more especially in meditating ...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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[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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The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

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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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The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).