He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?

Many people are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they had the sense to swallow it whole in a cup of patience and water.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

Nothing but grace makes a man so humble and, at the same time, so glad.

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.

When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.