The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.