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

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.