Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise! |
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. |
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. |
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith. |
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. |
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again. |
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. |
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. |
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. |