Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

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.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.