Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.

When the time comes for you to die, you need not be afraid, because death cannot separate you from God's love.

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