“An idle man’s brain is the devil’s workshop.”

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

The greatness of God, of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is that, if rightly considered, which will support the spirits of those of his people that are frighted with the greatness of their adversaries.

He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.