Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

The work of God's Holy Spirit begins with bruising. In order to be saved, the fallow ground must be plowed up, the hard heart must be broken, the rock must be split apart.

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.

If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.