If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am