My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.

I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.