Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.