After every storm, there comes clear open skies.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

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

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.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.