There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

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

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.