The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

I shall never understand, even in heaven, why the Lord Jesus should ever have loved me.

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 believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.