Is it not an amazing fact that while others leave us and forsake us, that God never does?

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.