One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

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.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.

Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had left them to their own counsels they had as often been their own tormentors, if not executioners!