Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

God's designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise.