When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!