Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.