It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

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