1. “It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.”
2. “Hope is never ill when faith is well.”
3. “Humility is the light of understanding.”
4. “Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.”
5. “No man without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.”
6. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
7. “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
8. “The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.”
9. “Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.”
10. “Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”
11. “The best prayers have often more groans than words.”
12. “To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.”
13. “One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
14. “There is no way to kill a man’s righteousness but by his own consent.”
15. “The heart must be beaten or bruised and then the sweet scent will come out.”
16. “Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.”
17. “He that is down needs fear to fall.”
18. “Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth.”
19. “Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.”
20. “Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.”
21. “The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.”
22. “The same yesterday, today and forever.”
23. “For to speak truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
24. “A saint abroad and a devil at home.”
25. “To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death an life everlasting beyond.”
