Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

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.

You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.