"Woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway."

"Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation."

"Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness!"

"Then Jonah prayed unto the lord out of the fish's belly. But observe his prayer and learn a weighty lesson. For as sinful as he is,...

"That ship, my friends, was the first of all recorded smugglers and the contraband was Jonah! But the sea rebels; he will not bear the...

"For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, 'that Jonah paid the fare' before...

"If we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists."

"Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of life and death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance."

"How is it that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why do all the...

"Each silent worshiper seemed purposefully sitting part from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable."