 The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. Topics: Jealousy |
| The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. Topics: Jealousy |
| Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well. Topics: Life, Beauty |
| As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two. Topics: Marriage
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him. Topics: Obedience |
| True obedience hath no lead at its heels. Topics: Obedience
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
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| The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him. Topics: Patience |
| Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul. Topics: Perseverance |
| Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. Topics: Prayer |
| Pride thrust Nebuchadnezzar out of men's society, Saul out of his kingdom, Adam out of paradise, Haman out of court, and Lucifer out of heaven. Topics: Pride |
| Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves. Topics: Pride, Satan, Self-righteousness |
| That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. Topics: Rebellion |
