If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.