Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin; and proportionally to our measure of love is our assurance of pardon. Therefore we should labour for a greater measure thereof, that our hearts may be the more inflamed in the love of God.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

Times are bad, God is good.

As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies.

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.

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