Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.