Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

Come boldly, O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.

That eye which sees anything good in the creature is a blind eye; that eye which fancies it can discern anything in man, or anything in anything he can do to win the Divine favor, is as yet stone blind to the Truth of God, and needs to be lanced and cut, and the cataract of pride removed from it!