Victory needs conflict as its preface.

Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.

I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who seems to have reached no common height of attainment.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him