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His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.
The patient man is merry indeed. . . . The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.