Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

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