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!

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will seem to hang upon its burning lips, yea the face, eyes, and ears will seem to be chimneys and vents for the flame, and the smoke of the burning , which God, by His breath, hath kindled therein, and upon, them, which will be held one in another, to the great torment and distress of each other.