Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

After a storm comes a calm.

It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.