The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

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

Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

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.

There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.