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

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

Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the fruits of study, or exercise of the imagination, which, in filling the mind with wandering objects, rarely settle it; instead of warming the heart with love to God, they leave it cold and languishing.

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

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.