Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

None so blind as those who will not see.

The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he) will be on the right side, though it be not the rising side.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.