It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.

It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.