Be sure to look to your secret duty; keep that up whatever you do. The soul can not prosper in neglect of it. It is secret trading that enriches the christain. Let prayer be the key of the morning and bolt at night. The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on your knees.
-Philip Henry

The bible is alive, it speaks to me, it has feet, it runs after me, it has hands, it lays hold of me.
-Martin Luther

Sensuality is the greatest hindrance in the world to matrydom. To face matrydom,a christain must first have crucified lesser affections. He who is overcome by little degrees of pains will hardly consent to loose his life .
-Jeremy Taylor

Those heights by great men won and kept were not achieved by sudden flight; but they,while their companions slept,were toiling upward in the night
Wadsworth Longfellow.