Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

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

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.

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

No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.