Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.
It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.
There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.