“A man says to me, 'Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?' No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come.”

“Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.”

“Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?”

“A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.”

“The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.”

“This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long”

“Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”

“The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.”