'tis Hard Preaching A Stone Into Tears,

I Must Confess, As The Experience Of My Own Soul, That The Expectation Of Loving My Friends In Heaven Principally Kindles My Love To Them While On Earth.

The Longer You Delay, The More Your Sin Gets Strength And Rooting. If You Cannot Bend A Twig, How Will You Be Able To Bend It When It Is A Tree?

Preach To Yourselves The Sermons Which You Study, Before You Preach Them To Others.

Suffering So Unbolts The Door Of The Heart, That The Word Hath Easier Entrance.

Naturally, Men Are Prone To Spin Themselves A Web Of Opinions Out Of Their Own Brain, And To Have A Religion That May Be Called Their Own. They Are Far Readier To Make Themselves A Faith, Than To Receive That Which God Hath Formed To Their Hands; Are Far Readier To Receive A Doctrine That Tends To Their Carnal Commodity, Or Honor, Or Delight, Than One That Tends To Self-denial.