Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Some people, when they use the word 'salvation', understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation.

We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

God is with us, and His power is around us.