They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.

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

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

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.

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

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.