If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it.

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

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

Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.