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.

When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.