All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.

I once was lost, but now am found.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.