Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

People will never set their faces decidedly towards heaven, and live like pilgrims, until they really feel that they are in danger of hell.