The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven. - Thomas Watson

That preaching is to be preferred which makes the truest discovery of men's sins and shows them their hearts.

Just so is the case of many; God gives them precious time in which they are to provide for a kingdom, and they waste this time of life and cut it all into chips. Let this excite violence in the things of God. It is the main errand of our living here...

Though the way of religion has thorns in it with respect to persecution, yet it is full of roses with respect to that inward peace and contentment that the soul finds in it.