It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

Times are bad, God is good.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.

Only very few people can remain unruffled by trouble.

Why try to have pigs flyWhen ducks already can

No colour comes after black.

Creative problem solving is not necessarily tantamount to cheating.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Give me a kiss to build a dream on And my imagination will thrive upon that kiss Sweetheart, I ask no more than this A kiss to build a dream on.

What I am looking for is a certain grace.

It's not about success, it's about progress.

I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.