We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

If we would be angry and not sin, we must be angry at nothing but sin; and we should be more jealous for the glory of God than for any interest or reputation of our own.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Though He had so much work to do with others, yet He [Jesus] chose sometimes to be alone, to set us an example.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.