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

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.

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

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.