A Collection of Sayings

--What we make our trust God often makes our shame.

--God made man of the dust, but man too often makes a god of the dust.
--We can force God to punish us, but not to love us.
--The sun is not so full of light as God is of love to those who fear him.
--Lusts within are worse than lions without.
--God is to be adored in the heart, and not painted to the eye.
--To set up an image to represent God is to debase God infinitely below himself.
--The people began to have golden images when they had wooden priests.
--Those hate the true God who worship him by images.
--The vial of God's wrath drops, but the fountain of his mercy runs.
--Sin creates all our trouble; it is the gall in our cup, and the gravel in our bread.
--No physician can heal the wounds of the tongue.
--Those who do not care for Christ's members do not care for Christ.
--For a cup of cold water here, you may have rivers of pleasure hereafter.
--For a drop of pleasure, many will drink a sea of wrath.
--The body goes out of the world naked, but the renewed soul goes out well clad.
--Discontent and impatience charge God with folly.
--Those who think long are better able to speak short.
--We should hear more from God if we thought more of him.
--The earth that stays us up will soon swallow us up.
--Our greatest blessings are to be made blessings, and to be kept from sin.
--Troubles are the trials or tests of friendships.
--While living we are sowing, in eternity to reap.
--We should persevere in the way of duty, though it cost all that is dear to us.
--Those who are prayerless are graceless.
--Fretful, passionate people tear and torment themselves.
--Those whom God has not honor from he will get honor upon.
--The way to have our hearts' desire is to make God our hearts' delight.
--There is no way to fly from the justice of God but to fly to his mercy.