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

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.

Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.

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