May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.

After a storm comes a calm.

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.