If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.
—John Owen
A godly man preferreth grace before goods, and wisdom before the world.
—Richard Bernard
Build your nest upon no tree here; for you see God has sold the forest to death.
—Samuel Rutherford
Let us use worldly things as wise pilgrims do their staves and other necessaries convenient for their journey. So long as they help us forward in our way, let us make use of them, and accordingly esteem them. But if they become troublesome hindrances and cumbersome burdens, let us leave them behind us, or cast them away.
—George Downame
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