Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.