but let him be fully persuaded of the lawfulness of what he asks: for he that is diffident about that, is like the waves that fluctuate with the wind.

Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:

What advantage is it, my brethren, for a man to say he has faith, if he has no beneficence? can such a faith save him?

you see how manageable horses are made by the application of a bit, which makes them take what motion we please.

so the tongue is but a small part of the body, yet how grand are its pretensions. a spark of fire! what quantities of timber will it blow into a flame?

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes.

he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal.

hark! what a noise there is of hire, of which you cheated the labourers, who gather'd in your harvest! the cries of the reapers have reach'd even the Lord of the celestial militia.

we pronounce those happy, who have so endur'd. you have heard of the constancy of Job, you know with what success he was crown'd by the Lord, who is all mercy and compassion.