The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).