The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

God's law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.

A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness, is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.