And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and craftily besets the hearts of men.

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.