Fiery trials make golden Christians.

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.

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

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

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.

Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.