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.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much.

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.

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

My brethren, the reason why you have not got contentment in the things of the world is not because you have not got enough of them-that is not the reason-but the reason is, because they are not things proportionable to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God himself.