You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

The same yesterday, today, and forever.

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure all things (if they be of the right kind) for the joy that is set before it. Hence patience is called patience of hope,' because it is hope that makes the soul exercise long-suffering under the cross until the time comes to enjoy the crown!

You have chosen the roughest road, but it leads straight to the hilltops.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.