I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

Your mercies are more than your afflictions.

Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves.

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!