God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

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.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.