You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

After every storm, there comes clear open skies.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.