The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.

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

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is the reason that a man comes to think of that which otherwise he should never have called to mind? The Holy Spirit brings it to his remembrance; He is a Comforter, bringing to mind useful things at such times when we have most need of them.

Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.