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.

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?

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself.

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.

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.