All states are full of noise and confusion; only the valley of Humiliation is that empty and solitary place. Here a man shall not be so let and hindered in his contemplation as in other places he is apt to be.
If the world, which God sets light by, is counted a thing of that worth with men, what is heaven, that God commendeth?
Hearing is but as the sowing of the seed; talking is not sufficient to prove that fruits is indeed in the heart and life.
