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

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

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

Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

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.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.