'tis one indeed of the smallest grains: but when it is grown, it is the largest of the pulse kind, and becomes a tree: so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.

it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which when sown in the earth, is less than any other grain that is sown there.

because of your incredulity, said Jesus: for I tell you truly, if ye had ever so little faith, ye might say to this mountain, remove hence to yonder place, and it should remove; and nothing would be too difficult for you.

if your faith improv'd like a grain of mustard-seed, you might say to this sycamine-tree, be thou rooted up, and planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

it is like a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, and sowed in his garden: it grew, and became so large, that the birds of the air built their nests in its boughs.

a ship too of the greatest burthen, tho' the wind bears hard, by means of an inconsiderable helm, veers about as the hand of the pilot directs her.

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?

why do you observe the mote that is in your brother's eye, and not consider the beam that is in your own eye? with what assurance can you say, brother, let me take that mote out of your eye; when there is such an apparent beam in your own eye? thou hypocrite, first get rid of the beam in your own eye; and then see how to remove the mote out of thy brother's eye.

I assure you, heaven and earth may as well cease to be, as that one jot or one tittle of the law should fail of its completion.

yet heaven and earth may sooner pass away, than any part of the law be unaccomplish'd.