Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.